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BRITAIN S SEA FORCES

STRUCK OFF REGISTER.

DROWNED IN THE DOCK. I

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HEALTH HINTS. "Summer-tinle"…

V.T.C. ORDERS.i

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A SUDAN SULTAN.I

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A SUDAN SULTAN. I Truculent Ruler Subdued by I British. Pr Bl1rPan, iri-;¡;-The Secretary of I the W ar Office announces: The attitude of Ali I)inq.r. Sultan of Dar-Fur, towards the Government of the Sudan has for .some time pa.st been unsatis- factory aad truculent. Early in February he commenced con- centrating- a force on the Kordofan frontier at Jebel-el-FIella. A mixetl force of all arm. under Colonel Kelly, assem'olod at Nahnd, and at the end of March oo<mpied T nun Shanga and Jebel-el-TTella, and sub- ftequeHMy iikivH forward to Abiad. where prepara! ions were made for the advance on El Faeher, Ali Dinar's capital. On May 15 the advance began. A re- port from the Sirdar, dated May 2. states that. Colonel Kelly's force defeated the enemy aBd successfully occupied El Fisher at ten a.m. on May 23. The fighting is described a. foilow.s:- The main action took place near the village of Beringia, twelve miles north of th? capital, where the enemy, numHeriug h?t?ve?n two and three thousand, hld a strongly-entrenched position. On the moriinK of the 22nd the (atnel Corps R?c- (. f u I Iv induced tb?in to ?oave thp posi- tion. They then attacked our troops '.vii.h the utmost rapiditv and desperation. The enemy's attack was met with a withering fire, but ivwne fpw penetrated to within ten yards of our lines. Our I roops then coil liter-ai.i a rk,- d, totally defeating ihe enemy, whose mini- mum losses are estimated at. 1,000. Sultan Ali Dinar is reported to hare fled with a email following early on the 23rd insfc. Our casualties amounted only to five killed and 23 wounded. Before and do-rin-, the artion a valuable a.ir reconnaissance was carried out by an officer of the Royal Flying Corp?, wlio suc- ceeded. by mpanf, m bombs and machino- gun tire, in forcing first a large hody of hostile cavalry and then a body of some twn thousand infantry to retire in dis- order. The officer was himself wounderl by a bullet in the thigh, but returned safely to Abiad. [Kordofan, a province of the Egyptian Sudan with an area of 13,1.i5 square miles, is situated on the left bank of tiie White Nile above Khartum. El F-,i,-h-pr is the capital of the province of Dar-Fur, which lies to the west of Kodofan.]

" DOWN WITH -THE KAISER."I

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PRESIDENT S THORNY PATH.

TO RESTORE THE EYESICHT

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ISWANSEA.

MUMBLES. .!

KIDWELLY.I

I PONTARDULAIS.

I BRYNCOCH.i

IAMMANFORD. :!

I -- -LLANDOVERY.I

I"CROSS HANDS.

--LLANSAMLET.--.

GORSEINON. -|

-I I.MORRISTON. II

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EXPLORER'S DEATH.

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ICARMARTHEN.!